Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Understanding at the intellectual level is not enough. There must be experience at the actual level.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.